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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Search Patrols - In a Time of Peace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the townspeople do in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” in response to the killing of the soldier?
(a) They are silent.
(b) They cheer and pat Alfonso’s back.
(c) They try to hide Alfonso.
(d) They scream and cry in agony and fear.

2. What does Alfonso down like a shot of vodka before killing the soldier?
(a) A glass of milk.
(b) A raw egg.
(c) Orange juice.
(d) A glass of water.

3. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?
(a) A cane.
(b) His neighbors.
(c) Mama Galya.
(d) The hand of God.

4. What happens to those who are caught unable to hear the soldiers?
(a) They are hauled away in trucks.
(b) They are put in stocks.
(c) They are beaten.
(d) They are shot on the spot.

5. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
(a) The dirty snow from Sonya’s boots is still on the floor.
(b) No food or heat.
(c) More soldiers.
(d) Mama Galya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alfonso says that you can have sex with anyone, but you cannot do what with just anyone?

2. The speaker says that to live is more than just to love; one must also be what?

3. What does Momma Galya do on stage, as the lights grow dim?

4. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?

5. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?

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